You went along through a thicket o' willows by a little footpath, then across a stagnant ditch, on a rickety bridge, and this took you to the wild weedylawn in front of the house itself.
Arriving on thelawn in front of the decaying mansion, we would stop in the shade of a gigantic oak, and gossip about the times of Queen Elizabeth, for it was then the old house was built, no doubt.
I rather think that when the 12th of June shall have shaken off these shackles, there will be borage on the lawn at Gad's.
On the lawnplaying at bowls, in the Swiss summer-house charmingly shaded by green leaves, he always seemed the best part of summer, beautiful as the season is in the delightful region where he lived.
Mr. Veal lived in the exclusive and clean-shaven suburb of Mandrake Park, where he had built a stucco mansion with Venetian blinds, a croquet lawn with a revolving spray on it on hot days, and a mansard butler.
But to come back at night after a long day at the office, and after helping Janet wash the dishes, and stoking the furnace or mowing the lawn or planting bulbs in the garden--then to try to write seemed tough indeed.
What did it matter whether or not one made a lawn in place of a pasture lot?
In front of the Champney house he stopped and looked up past the lawn and saw old Henry Champney, sitting in a wicker chair that was planted on the gravel walk.
The Champney house stands back of a generous lawn with accurate paths.
Beyond the lawn ran Lower Bank Street; beyond the street and underneath the bluff were the freight-yards, with piles of black coal and brown iron dust, and a travelling crane rattling to and fro, from ship to car.
Worthington, where the iron mastiffs on the lawnwere up to their muzzles in snow.
Despite the menace of 'the irrelevant' dotting the lawn immediately outside the windows, the little group on the farther side of the hall still stood there talking in low tones with the sense of intimacy which belongs to a family party.
But the brand new clock on the lawn bore neither watchword nor device--seemed even to have dropped its hands as though in modesty withheld from pointing to hours so little worthy of record.
Lord John stopped halfway across the lawn and called back, 'aren't you coming?
The doors and curtains of successive courts were drawn aside, revealing active fountains, marble pillars with splendid statuary, and a lawn and shrubbery exposed above to the blue Italian sky.
She walked around the lawnwith the alert graceful movements of a panther.
Passing the tablinum or room of archives, they proceeded into the peristylium, a still larger transverse court or lawn with verdant shrubbery and a chaste towering fountain.
Kings, and queens, and princes of the blood royal were often seen upon the lawn at Malmaison pursuing and pursued.
In the evening twilight, the party went out upon the beautiful lawn in front of the house for recreation.
After dinner, upon the lawn at Malmaison, the most distinguished gentlemen and ladies, not of France only, but of all Europe, were often actively and most mirthfully engaged in this sport.
Let him be pleased or angry as he will,' said Ian; 'we will drive our ball on his lawn to-day.
And in it he fancied himself walking on the shining lawn beside the fountain.
Rugs and silken pillows were thrown on a lawn freshened by a glittering fountain.
In the midst of them stands the house of Wenderholme, surrounded by soft margins of greenlawn and wide borders of gleaming flowers.
The whole lawn was as light as day, for the front of the Hall was illuminated, and hundreds of little glow-worm lamps lay scattered amongst the flowers.
A large flat space on the lawn had been surrounded by masts with banners, and from mast to mast hung large festoons of greenery, and from the festoons hung the many-colored lanterns.
He had on a square cap, and large ruff surmounting his doctor's gown; his hair was powdered and his boots had lawn tops trimmed with ribbons.
In her simple dress with its snow-white lawn bodice and apron, surrounded by the reapers whom she was serving, she looked like some rural goddess, though Neville thought rather of some Judean damsel in the fields of Bethlehem.
Bee made a circuit round the lawn with her book, one finger shut in it to mark the place; looking at the flowers, as one does who knows every plant individually, and notes each bud that is opening, and which are about to fall.
Mrs. Kingsward had come upon her daughter seated out on the lawn under the great walnut tree, reading one of these letters, one morning when she had gone out earlier than usual, on an exceptionally fine day.
Through its slender gothic panes one saw a walled lawn and a single elm.
Well, one morning a little after Will had been flunked out of college, he was standing on the lawn whittling.
Across a wide expanse of green that was hardly smooth enough to be called a lawn gleamed the stately homestead.
She bought sufficient lawn for a handkerchief, silks to embroider it, and some card-board and colours for her husband and son.
She thought me an obtrusive and even depraved young man, whom a perverse Providence had dropped upon their quiet lawn to flatter her husband's worst tendencies.
The lawn seemed to me of extraordinary extent, the garden-walls of incalculable height, the whole air of the place delightfully still, private, proper to itself.
She was walking now down the lawn between the two tall men.
Adeline, intensely bored by Eliot and his absurd affairs, came down the lawn to look at them.
His idea seemed to be that if he, Jerrold, could play in a lawn tennis tournament, his father couldn't be seriously ill.
From the terrace they could see, coming up the lawn from the goldfish pond, Colin and his girl.
Again he sat out with her on the terrace when the October days were warm; he walked with her up and down the lawn and on the flagged paths of the flower garden.
And he went off to play in the lawn tennis tournament at Medlicote as a protest against the general pessimism.
I could also see the beautiful lawn lying at my feet, and stretching away to the street passing out of the city.
The first work I did out door was to rake the old dead grass off the lawn into heaps.
Why he had left that ranch and why he had come to this queer place he could not imagine; but the picture of the beautiful, mission-like house was distinct, and of Dorothy walking across its lawn beside him.
A lawn as smooth as velvet, dotted here and there by electric light poles whose radiance could turn night into day.
The lawn was wide and a good distance was still between them and the red-skinned visitors, but they could see all that was going on.
She was beckoning her son and asked, as he came running up: "Please go across the lawn and ask Miss Milliken to join us.
On the lawn outside the half-open glass door there was at that moment a light movement--the tapping of a walking-stick!
They walked together in the cool, shady glen beside the rippling burn, climbed the neighbouring hills, played tennis, or else she lay in the hammock at the edge of the lawnwhile he lounged at her side smoking cigarettes.
Plain it was that while passing across the lawn outside he heard her voice.
Which will be observed when Krail has been brought face to face with Sir Henry," answered Murie, at the same time calling Hill and one of the gardeners who chanced to be working on the lawn outside.
Whatever suspicions she had previously held were corroborated in that stroll across the lawn in the dark shadow.
A circle with that diameter would include Monticello, Ash Lawnand Locust Hill.
SALE OF ASH LAWN As is well known, Monroe’s life was straitened by debt.
She could only see the grey outline of trees and shrubs, obscured by the heavy mist; and on the lawn below, a thick cloud that seemed to hang over a dark space which she suspected to be a large pond.
For as it would be more than justice to human nature to say that Mrs. Meadows's residence at Willow Lawn was a perfect success, so it would be less than justice to call it a failure.
However, Ulick's first evening at Willow Lawn was on what he called 'a headache day.
One bright summer day, his beaming face appeared at Willow-Lawn with a peremptory invitation.
Maurice, who was standing on the lawn with the very John Smith, beckoned to her, and she went down to hear his plans.
Dey was on de lawn and dat's how we come to git 'em.
Some of the species are among the earliest arrivals at toadstool lawn parties, and some are the last to leave.
West Philadelphia, 1897, on lawn and growing from trunk of a maple tree; Mt.
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